Inspired  by the drums that belonged to the man from the KGB.  Some time after the terrors of the reign of Stalin, a Russian anthropologist went to Siberia and was helped by the locals.  He offered to repay their help and they told him they didn't want anything in return, just to look at the collection of Shamans' drums.  They went to his attic to have a look at his private collection.  One of them picked out two of the drums and said, "You are a good man and these two drums are all right as long as they remain in your possession.  But if you pass them  to anyone, something  terrible will happen."  The collector was astonished because he knew these two drums had a sinister history.  They had belonged to a KGB officer who worked in a remote area of Siberia.  This officer  had a habit of visiting small villages pretending to be ill and asking for the local shaman.  When the shaman appeared, the officer would lead him to a dark, lonely place and shoot him.  He would then take the drums  of the shamans for trophies. 

The KGB and the Shamans' Drums

Placenta sold to the
talisman,

the talisman wearing
their vestments.

Placenta figures in
DICKENS stories.

In England, shipmen
value placentas, for
safety on sea voyage,

reasoning, the fetus
protects by placenta
in crossing the mother's
amniotic fluid, to be
safely born into the world.

She calls herself "Siberia."
Tasha Romanova is after
the placenta, which the Shaman
keeps.

"Siberia" feigns sickness to
lure the shaman.

"Siberia" is albino with
pink eyes.

A rogue KGB agent in
disguise, she wears colored
contact lenses.

The Shaman leads "Siberia"
to the "singing rocks."

In the darkness of the cave,
The Montagnard, tribe of
Quebec make Shamans'
drums.

The Shaman as a blacksmith,
pounding ores from the earth,
shaman and blacksmith one
in the same spirit.

The placenta is more powerful
than the grenade.

The talisman holds the placenta,
luring "Siberia" and coaxes the
grenade off of her.

"Siberia's" evil intentions will
haunt her for whatever time
she has left.

You see, the migrating Ravens
from Siberia witnessed it all.

To thieve from the Shaman is
to thieve from the Raven.

Copyright 2005 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist